Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Joseph Heller: Injustice, treachery or bad luck
“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” —Joseph Heller.
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Annie Dillard: How we spend our days
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” —Annie Dillard.
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Hosea Balou: Suspicion
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.” —Hosea Balou.
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Jerry Seinfeld: Bookstore
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” —Jerry Seinfeld.
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Henri Poincaré: Thought
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.” —Henri Poincaré.
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Frederick Maitland: Simplicity
“Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point.” — Frederick Maitland.
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Saddam Hussein: Politics
“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.” —Saddam Hussein.
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Brian W Kernighan: Most effective debugging tool
“The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.” —Brian W Kernighan.
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Dante Alighieri: No greater sorrow
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” —Dante Alighieri.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: New word
“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Kevin James: Did she mean it?
“I’ve always been the guy who doesn’t necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, ‘I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.’ And still I would question it. Did she mean it?” —Kevin James.
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Grant Achatz: Cookbook
“A cookbook is not like being an author. It’s writing down recipes; it’s not writing.” —Grant Achatz.
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Shirley Maclaine: Most profound relationship
“I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.” —Shirley Maclaine.
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William Shakespeare: Words without thoughts
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” —William Shakespeare.
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Valerie Bertinelli: Calories in, calories out
“After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.” —Valerie Bertinelli.
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Madame de Stael: Death
“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” —Madame De Stael.
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Immanuel Kant: Content and concepts
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Law and ethics
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” —Immanuel Kant.
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John Muir: Treatment of brother beasts
“In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights — only murder in one form or another.”…
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Queen Elizabeth II: Lacked statesmanship
“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.” —Queen Elizabeth II.
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Ed Catmull: Cost of preventing errors
“Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won’t have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.” – Ed Catmull.
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Adolf Hitler: Propaganda
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” —Adolf Hitler.
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Albert Camus: Christian
“Everyone would like to behave as a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.” —Albert Camus.
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Noam Chomsky: Societal role
“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They’re designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.” — Noam Chomsky.
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Tim Curry: Increasingly larger bow
“In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.” —Tim Curry.
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Charles Bukowski: Problem with the world
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” —Charles Bukowski.
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Alexandra Adornetto: What exam results cannot reflect
“Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.” —Alexandra Adornetto.
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Rich Hickey: Programming is thinking
“Programming is not about typing, it’s about thinking.” —Rich Hickey.
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Ray Stannard Baker: Mob
“A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.” —Ray Stannard Baker.
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Anatole France: Relaxation
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” —Anatole France.
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Charlie Chaplin: Despair
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” —Charlie Chaplin.
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Simon Sinek: Private megaphone
“Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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Noam Chomsky: God is an imbecile
“Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.” — Noam Chomsky.
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Thomas Szasz: Clear thinking
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” —Thomas Szasz.
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John Ousterhout: Not-working to working
“The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.” – John Ousterhout.
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Guru Nanak: Ant filled with love of God
“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.” —Guru Nanak.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Progress women have achieved
“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Indifferentism
“Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.” —Dr. B R Ambedkar.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Great versus eminent
“A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be a servant of society.” —Dr. B R Ambedkar.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Great rather than long
“Life should be great rather than long.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Liberty, equality and fraternity
“I like the religion that that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Simon Sinek: Feel good
“It feels good to help people. So get out there and feel good.” —Simon Sinek.
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Arnold J Toynbee: Blur the line
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” —Arnold J. Toynbee.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Caste system
“Caste system is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers.” —Dr B. R. Ambedkar.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Matter of principles
“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Noam Chomsky: Free speech
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.” — Noam Chomsky.
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Thomas Jefferson: Artificial aristocracy
“There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.” -Thomas Jefferson.
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Simon Sinek: Beware those who speak a lot
“Beware those who speak a lot but say little.” —Simon Sinek.
